NINCIS ASENCIO

Highlights: IT Asset Management Program, PMO Process & Template Setup

Proactively manage the planning phase of an Enterprise IT Asset Management Program with a dependency on regulatory audit due within 6 months.

• Plan & execute all planning phase tasks of an Enterprise IT Asset Management Program positively impacting an audit closure by implementing Program Management Methodologies and governance standards.
• Successfully coordinate all program tasks against aggressive Audit timeline by fostering collaboration and ensuring accountability by increasing visibility.
• Coach teams on project management practices.

Highlights: Cyber Vault Implementation, Diversity Champion, Audit Efforts Pipeline Plan & Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Resiliently manage a $21M data & privacy protection program by exploiting all opportunities to bring cross-functional teams to consensus regarding scope, timeline and budget

• Successfully drive business requirements to align with scope. Create and maintain key metrics for program dashboard report.
• Develop strong relationships with senior partners across 1st, 2nd & 3rd Lines of Defense, and facilitating effective communication required for Scope, KPIs and timeline alignment to drive program execution effectively.
• Lead identification & mitigation of Program Risks, tasks dependencies & issues.
• Optimize overall project timelines while managing multiple schedules (internal & vendors' schedules) to identify critical paths timeline and resources required.

Highlights: Sprint Planning, Cyber Policy Creation/Editing & EOL Servers Decommission

Efficiently manage multiple highly complex Cyber Security work-streams.

• Work closely with Azure Policy development teams within Walmart & Microsoft to ensure alignment w/project Scope.
• Successfully assemble and aligned project plan with immediate 2nd & 3rd Lines of Defense leadership goals through building cross-functional relationships and partnerships with key-stakeholders.
• Recommend solutions to problems that help with the development, execution and improvement of action plans and project execution best practices.
• Support efforts to meet customer and business needs by capitalizing on improvement opportunities.

Highlights: Enterprise Vulnerability Program & PMO Governance.

Setup a PMO for the Enterprise Vulnerability Program & Manage 4 direct reports.

• Successfully manage a team of Project Managers and aspiring Project Managers, increasing productivity through identification of roles and responsibilities and by establishing a baseline for all project deliverables.
• Lead design for Enterprise Vulnerability Management PMO SharePoint site, and templates that include: status dashboards, budget, risks, communication, issues, Bill of Materials, etc.
• Establish project management best practices for managing all enterprise vulnerability program tasks, aligning all projects to EVMS objectives.
• Engineer project management processes, resulting in more accurate reporting and accountability.

Highlights: Cloud Security & Compliance & Cloud Operations, Scrum Master for SRE & DevOps Teams

Drive all PM related tasks for Cloud Security, effectively manage all Cloud Compliance & Security tasks.

• Successfully led three engineering teams: Compliance & Governance, Operations, and Cloud Monitoring by establishing reporting procedures and improving inter & intra team communication, and sprint planning.
• Design and implement Cloud Compliance & Governance schedule to show goal visibility; owner of all project related dashboards resulting in accurate PMO reporting.
• Formulate process improvement strategies leading to better execution of Waterfall & Agile projects across the Cloud organization.
• Effectively managed cross-functional teams’ conflicting priorities, resulting in achieving Cloud Compliance goals.
• Mentor Scrum teams and promote a self-organization culture while driving ad-hoc sessions to address impediments, resulting in more effective communication across teams.

Highlights: Payment Card Industry (PCI) Program & IT Asset Management Program

Effectively manage Information Security Programs and establish efficient program reporting.

• Improve information security team's morale by tailoring operational reporting to fit the CTO’s needs, demonstrating Information Security's team capabilities in addressing and identifying weak security areas.
• Successfully align information security efforts with overall organizational and strategic initiatives that impacted all the Information Security Program components, goals, and objectives by achieving stakeholders’ consensus on the program roadmap.
• Rescue a PCI failed project (driven by a delinquent audit) by interviewing key stakeholders to understand areas of weaknesses within the program and developing a roadmap to address weak areas and satisfy the program goals and objectives. Budget for PCI $4M.

Highlights: Penetration Tests, & PKI Certificate Authority

Successfully managed the Planning Phase of an Enterprise Program.

• Improve project team communication with vendor, project sponsor, and other globally located teams by actively driving white board working sessions.
• Manage all project tasks successfully by adhering to rigorous and complex internal project management practices.

Highlights: Business Apps Migration to Cloud, Hardware & Software Upgrade Security Portfolio

Support a business app migration program driven by Agile & Waterfall practices.

• Create new change management processes, which successfully migrated 250 business applications to a private cloud.
• Drive Scrum & Infrastructure teams to achieve all projected project goals by closely managing all projects tasks and removing blockers.
• Drive daily Task Force meetings to address immediate issues with all teams.